Comments on: YouTube Video Lags in Firefox?

By: Toby

Toby — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 20:15:55 +0000

Yeah its defiantly Flash that is the ultimate route of the issue. If anyone plays any of the Zynga flash games (eg Farmvillie) you will see how bad it gets.

By: Happy

Happy — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 21:03:28 +0000

My computer is slow and has low RAM so this helped! Thanks!

By: paul

paul — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 20:05:50 +0000

this worked. thank you.

By: Daniel Hendrycks

Daniel Hendrycks — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 23:12:07 +0000

@foo
Very cool. But I was not thinking of embedding it in an svg document but thanks anyways.

By: Foo

Foo — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 02:26:25 +0000

Hmm, well I can’t really see using SVG for controls to be problematic. Not that I have played around anything with SVG-fu, but the JavaScript event handling system should work the same for SVG as it does with HTML/XML.
I have only seen implementations using either a or ‘normal’ HTML elements for controls, for example jai.
Though,it appears to me that SVG should be simpler to use, animating stuff using SMIL for instance.

SVG playback of video could possibly be done by decoding the stream manually a la the image meta-data reader over at nihilogic.dk or via snapshots through canvas. … I’m thinking, using SVG elements to display the video, but it just hit me that perhaps you were talking about ‘embedding’ the video in an SVG document? If so you might be happy to know that that can already be done :)

By the by, while looking for a video player using SVG to ‘render’ the controls I stumbled upon this old proof of concept:
http://people.mozilla.com/~vladimir/demos/photos.svg

Which had me thinking that it would pretty sweet to have the same with video instead of pictures. Five minutes later I found this :)
http://www.double.co.nz/video_test/video.svg

Now if only someone could add multi-touch controls and orientation (of the device) sensitivity :D

By: Daniel Hendrycks

Daniel Hendrycks — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 00:30:58 +0000

No, SVG would be pause, play, the interactive stuff.
Yes SVG playing video would be amazing.

But this Ogg and SVG thing may not happen for some time… :(

By: Foo

Foo — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 22:30:51 +0000

Using SVG to play videos? Now that would be epic to see! :D
I agree about silverlight/moonlight/flash/java, just throw it in the dumpster!

By: Daniel Hendrycks

Daniel Hendrycks — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 12:17:55 +0000

Theora, Vorbis, SVG. Not Silverlight.

By: Vygantas Lipskas

Vygantas Lipskas — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 11:13:24 +0000

I wish youtube would drop flash in favor of silverlight, I don’t experience any issues though.

By: Foo

Foo — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 10:53:32 +0000

From the Reddit thread linked to in the article:

stopmotionporn 3 points How about in opera? it happens to me a lot too.

ponyolovesHAM 3 points i would also love to know how to fix in opera!

HeNeArKrXeRn 2 points how about in Chrome?

Just saying... it's more likely a general problem with the crap that is flash. Or it's the OS, I have no problems with flash video playing once it plays in either browser. Now seeking in a video is a whole other matter.